[0] JACKSON EXTENDS PADRES' STREAK : SAN DIEGO 4, DODGERS 3.Byline: Brian Dohn Staff Writer The Dodgers left the Bay Area, home to the X-Games, winning two of three this weekend. While fighting through traffic and what-not, they must've gotten a peek at the wall-climbing competition because they clung on for dear life through jams in the ninth, 10th and 11th innings. They fell in the 12th. Damian Jackson's RBI-single with none out in the bottom of the 12th lifted the Padres to a 4-3 win over the Dodgers in the opener of a three-game series Tuesday at Qualcomm Stadium Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers • • [ . The Padres tied a club record with their 11th straight win. Ben Davis Ben Davis may refer to:
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The excitement began in the top of the ninth when the Padres' Ruben Rivera robbed Eric Karros bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat . Dave Magadan
Signed by the New York Mets as an amateur free agent in 1989, Veras would make his Major League Baseball debut with the Florida Marlins tried to sacrifice the runner to second, but Adrian Beltre couldn't come up with it. Mills did, and threw wildly to first to allow the runners to move to second and third. Eric Owens was intentionally walked to load the bases and Reggie Sanders hit a soft liner to left that Gary Sheffield caught before falling. Pinch-runner Woody Williams tried to score but was thrown out when Beltre cut the ball and threw to catcher Todd Hundley for the double play. Rivera flied out to center to end the inning. The Padres again could have scored the winning run off Mills in the 10th when Baerga doubled with two outs in the 10th. Jackson and Phil Nevin walked to load the bases for the second straight inning. But Veras grounded to second to end the inning. San Diego had two runners on in the 11th but Maddux got Wally Joyner to ground into a double play to end the inning. Three days into his plan to use Hundley three out of every five days, Dodgers manager Davey Johnson called a valuable audible. He wanted offense, preferably early, and he was willing to tempt a San Diego team that stole nine bases the night before to get it. Hundley homered with Eric Young on in the first, his fourth in four games, and threw out a runner. He also had another caught, but the ball was dropped. Johnson said after Hundley homered twice in the Dodgers' win Saturday at San Francisco that Angel Pena would catch Ismael Valdes and Darren Dreifort because they're slower to the plate and don't hold runners on very well. Hundley was to catch Kevin Brown, Chan Ho Park and Carlos Perez. But Valdes started against the Padres, and for six innings pitched well before a few bad pitches, a bad hop and excellent execution on the Padres' part allowed San Diego to rally. The Dodgers led 3-1 when George Arias and Jackson, who's grounder took a huge bounce over the head of second baseman Young, singled. With runners on first and second, pitcher Andy Ashby faked a bunt and slapped an RBI-single through the vacated shortstop spot. The Padres tied it 3-3 on Owens' fielder's choice grounder. Valdes, who had a no-decision and remains on a personal five-game losing streak, allowed three runs on nine hits in seven innings. He struck out seven. Ashby returned from the disabled list to baffle the Dodgers last week in Los Angeles, allowing one run on four hits while pitching into the seventh inning. It took four pitches for the Dodgers to get to Ashby this time, though there wasn't much afterward. Ashby allowed four hits in 7-2/3 innings. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) The Dodgers' Todd Hundley is greeted at the plate by Eric Young after hitting a two-run homer. Lenny Ignelzi/Associated Press (2--Color) The two minor-leaguers that baseball found were signed illegally by the Dodgers had their first news conference Tuesday. |
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